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Old 01-19-2009
How do i find out the list of users whose terminal is writable?
Hello,
i just wanted to know how do i find out the list of users whose terminal is writable?i mean i used
Code:
who -T

but this gives a list of all users whose terminal is writable or blocked and not writable. So how do i do this?I am new to Unix.
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Old 01-19-2009
Tools
Would this work for you?
Code:
who -T | awk '$2=="+"'

If not, can you show the output the
who -T
is giving you?
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Old 01-20-2009
yeah it works..thanks Smilie
 
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